Joan Smith Grey’s birthday provides the perfect time to acknowledge how deeply we all still miss her and how all of us in the ‘best friends’ club’ channel her vision to guide us – especially in tough times. Probably because of that rapidly approaching birthday, I feel particularly bereft of her wisdom and her great…
IndexCardCure™ is back! With my co-blogger’s Joan’s spirit to guide me, I’m posting some things to think about in the new blank slate of 2026: DON’T MAKE ANY RESOLUTIONS – YOU ARE PERFECT JUST THE WAY YOU ARE! Yup – don’t try to lose 10 pounds or eat more leafy greens, or exercise more…
Well, Yankee was a derogatory name for a colonist (we weren’t even Americans yet!). It is unclear exactly how it was coined (one theory is it’s a Native American mispronunciation of English (Yen-gees), another blames the Dutch settlers –‘Janke’ is a term of endearment for ‘little Jan’.) But it is clear the British army officers…
All of Captain Joan Smith Grey’s best friends gathered in Arlington National Cemetery at her Funeral Mass on January 23rd. There are hundreds of us! Our tribute began at a funeral Mass at Old Post Chapel. Colonel Dan G. Grey, her husband (and hairdresser!) gave a moving, memorable and compassionate eulogy that captured her essence…
My visionary friend always gathered her groups of friends at the New Year to help us concentrate on visualizing goals for the upcoming year and remain focused on living an intentional life. Here it is, the end of another year, and my friend Joan is only with us in spirit. But I can still feel…
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